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TiPS Graduate

Iona Annett

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About

Professional Title

Dr

Locations

  • Melbourne CBD
  • Metro North
  • Metro South
  • Metro East
  • Metro West
  • Loddon Mallee
  • Hume
  • Barwon South West

Areas Of Expertise

  • Advocacy and Inclusion
  • Creating Safe and Inclusive Spaces
  • Diversity and Identity
  • Education and Equity
  • LGBTIQA+ Awareness and Inclusion
  • Mental Health and Wellbeing

Presentation Topics

  • Awareness storytelling
  • Chronic Illness and Disability
  • Conference presentations
  • DEI
  • Education
  • Empowerment
  • Family
  • Healing and Compassion
  • Hope for the Future
  • Inclusion
  • Large groups
  • LGBTIQA+ advocacy through storytelling
  • LGBTQI+ visibility
  • Mental Health
  • Neurodiverse Perspective
  • Neuroqueerness
  • Non-binary inclusion
  • Organisational change
  • Organisational inclusivity
  • Power and Privilege
  • Rainbow Families
  • Using Power and Privilege Well
  • Womens rights

Socials

Open to Negotiating Fees

Yes

Biography

Iona is a speaker and writer who knows the power of personal storytelling for empathy and self-understanding. They are joyously queer and autistic, with lived experience of disability, caring for others with disability, parenting outside the binary and leading inclusion in their workplace.

Iona is a public servant with a career spanning academia and private sector evaluation, always with an interest in education and how individual and collective action powers change.

Experience

Iona is a graduate of the Telling it With Pride Speakers Program and appeared in the Midsumma 2026 TiPS showcase. They have workplace experience in hosting events, stakeholder engagement, briefings to key decision makers and presentations to large audiences.

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